Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Monday Memorial Day, May 26, 2025.

This is the exit.

Today, Trump goes after Vladimir Putin, plus illegal crossings at the southern border, have dropped significantly

and what to expect at national parks this summer.

President Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin had gone absolutely crazy, referring to Russia's

latest bombing of Ukraine. In the biggest aerial assault of the war, Russia pummeled Ukrainian

cities and other targets with at least

367 drones and missiles over the weekend. Trump in a trit social post wrote yesterday, quote,

I've always said that he wants all of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that's proving to be

right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia, unquote. He also wrote that he's had a good

relationship with Putin,

but that something has happened to him and he's gone crazy. But in his post yesterday, Trump also

blamed Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, for the ongoing war, writing that he was doing

his country no favors by talking the way he does. There was no immediate response from Russia

or Zelensky's office on Trump's remarks.

Illegal crossings at the southern border have declined dramatically from a year ago.

I spoke with USA Today, National Immigration reporter Lauren Villagran, to put those numbers in context and give us a firsthand glimpse from the border near El Paso.

Hello, Lauren. Hey, Taylor. So let's just start with this. Tell us about border patrol agent Claudio Herrera and what he's told you about this shift he's seeing really firsthand at

the border. Yeah, so we thought it would be a good idea to go out and take a firsthand look at

what's been happening at the border over the last several

months. As many people have probably heard, illegal border crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border

are down dramatically from a year ago. So we joined Border Patrol agent Claudio Herrera in the El Paso

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